Other editions of book Doctor Dolittle's Circus

In Doctor Dolittle's Circus the doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins a circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses that is too old to work. Hugh John Lofting was a British author who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. His early education was at Mount St. Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the Doctor Dolittle novels.

Doctor Dolittle's Circus is the story we all know and love that was adapted into the wonderful Rex Harrison film. To raise money for a trip to Africa Doctor Dolittle contacts a local circus and offers them the once in a lifetime opportunity of having the most rare animal on Earth, the Pushmi-Pullyu, perform in their circus. Of course, with Doctor Dollittle's involvement nothing goes as planned and the doctor finds himself once against launched on another grand adventure.

The doctor must earn some money to repay the sailor for the boat he borrowed and subsequently smashed. He and his friends go to the circus to show off the Pushmi-pullyu at six pence a pop. After some time, thanks to a series of adventures, the doctor ends up managing the circus itself, and it seems that everything ends safely... They may even make enough money to pay the sailor one day.

Doctor Dolittle's Circus is the story we all know and love that was adapted into the wonderful Rex Harrison film. To raise money for a trip to Africa Doctor Dolittle contacts a local circus and offers them the once in a lifetime opportunity of having the most rare animal on Earth, the Pushmi-Pullyu, perform in their circus. Of course, with Doctor Dollittle's involvement nothing goes as planned and the doctor finds himself once against launched on another grand adventure.